episode_0231

Shin Yu-jeong, who went to school early in the morning, headed not to the school but to a nearby gym.

It was an old and shabby gym that had lost all its customers to the well-equipped gyms nearby. It was a place where I met Kim Do-jin, who was starting to change and was still quite fat.

“What’s going on this morning? “What about school?”

When Shin Yoo-jeong came to visit in the morning, the president folded the newspaper he was looking at and asked her with a surprised expression.

“… … .”

There was no answer back.

That’s because I closed the door and went into the women’s locker room just as I came in with the cold wind blowing.

“… “I guess something bad happened.”

After mumbling that, the president opened the newspaper he had put away for a moment and began to read.

Then, after changing into exercise clothes and heading straight to the exercise equipment, I said something to her.

“Start with warm-up exercises. Even awakened people often get injured while exercising.”

“… … .”

The angry steps stopped.

No matter how angry he was, he seemed to want to avoid getting injured.

With those words, the president lost all his attention to Shin Yu-jeong.

Because it wasn’t that big of a deal to him that she came here angry.

‘I’ll figure it out and go.’

It was something that happened occasionally.

Shin Yoo-jeong, who is very stressed, comes to visit and works out to the point where it feels violent.

Every time that happened, all he did was point out and tell me the things that my frayed nerves couldn’t catch.

For example, like now, you forget to do warm-up exercises, or you try to exercise with a weight you can’t handle.

Except for those times, you can just leave it alone.

Once I lose enough energy and organize my thoughts, it goes back on its own.

“Sigh… !”

After finishing the warm-up exercise, Shin Yu-jeong immediately started heavy exercise.

Repetition of exercise that puts so much strain on my body that my arms start to tremble every time I lift it.

Even though my whole body was sweating and my muscles were screaming as if they were going to tear, I didn’t stop.

Every time I feel my breath rising to the tip of my chin and the pain that feels like my whole body is being squeezed, the anger that fills my head is diluted little by little.

“Huh, huh…” !”

With her exhausted body, she once again pushed her limits and collapsed.

Then, I wipe my face with the towel placed next to the equipment and look at my current appearance in the mirror attached to one wall.

Suddenly curious, she asked the president, who had now shifted his attention from the newspaper to the TV.

“Boss, I have a question.”

“What?”

“I guess I’m in the top percentile.”

“Hmm, that’s fine.”

The president, still not taking his eyes off the TV, stroked my chin and muttered.

“If Yujeong has muscles like yours, let’s see… .”

Shin Yu-jeong shouted in anger.

“Oh, not muscles!”

“… “What if it’s not muscle?”

“As a woman, as a woman.”

Then the president looked at Shin Yu-jeong with cold eyes and answered.

“I’ll tell you in advance, this boss is already married and has two kids…” .”

“Ah, who likes Nottang like the boss!”

“No land! Even if I was like this in the past… !”

“Ugh, it’s here, oldies’ latte is horses.”

“Ugh… , I don’t know the blessings of having this child raised and exercised since he was young… !”

Two people start bickering.

“Ah, that’s enough. “Please answer my question quickly.”

Shin Yu-jeong stands up and poses with her hands on her waist.

“If you look at it calmly, what percent of the top would I be? “I heard that I saw a lot of pretty women in my days.”

As she subtly comforted him, the president, whose anger had subsided, cleared his throat and looked at her from the corner of his eye.

“Well, if Yujeong is as good as you… “I think I’d be in the top 10%.”

Shin Yu-jeong becomes even more sullen at his answer.

“… “It’s only 10%?”

Then the president changed his words.

“So, what is it… “It means that it is large enough to fit comfortably into it, hmm.”

“Then how far can you go if you hold on tight?”

The next difficult question.

The boss, who was worried about this, closed his eyes tightly and tried to give a generous score.

An urgent voice came from the TV.

[This is breaking news. A huge crack was created near the southern coast, and an evacuation order was issued for the nearby area. The monster that came out of the crack first discovered by the Haenam Surveillance Battalion was known as the Kraken, which had caused great damage to Japan in the past, causing great confusion… .】

The word Kraken came flying hard and stuck in the two people’s minds.

“What a disaster level monster… , It’s not normal.”

He shook his head excitedly, examining the image of the Kraken taken from afar with wide eyes.

Just thinking about how much damage would be done to the nearby area and how many hunters would die to stop it made my head hurt.

Like the president, Shin Yu-jeong heard the breaking news on TV and another word besides the word Kraken was deeply embedded in her mind.

Haenam Surveillance Battalion.

“Oh, Dad… .”

Because that was definitely where my father, who became an awakened person, worked.

She manages to hold on to the strings of reason in her mind that is turning completely white.

I was so nervous that I went straight into the locker room, breathing heavily, took out my smartphone from my bag, and called my mom.

Soon, Seo Jeong-hee’s voice is heard.

-Yu, Yujeong. Have you seen the news?

“… I just saw it. Have you tried contacting your dad?”

-I’ve already tried calling you, but they say that if you’re near a firewall, the radio waves are blocked, so you can’t make a call.

It’s the worst.

In the past, a disaster-level monster that dyed the sea off the coast of Japan red has appeared, but I can’t even contact my father who is nearby.

She tried to remain calm and reassured my mother, who was fidgeting through the phone.

“… are you okay. “If you see that there are no casualties announced on the news yet, it probably means that everything is okay.”

I sincerely hoped so.

“First of all, I keep in touch with my mom at home. I am… , I’ll find out what the situation is.”

-Yu, Yujeong.

“why?”

-I’m just saying this just in case… , You shouldn’t do anything dangerous. Understand?

“don’t worry. “I just wanted to ask the professors.”

-ha… , okay. Mom will keep calling me, so call me if anything happens.

“okay.”

After finishing the phone call, she immediately put on her bag and left the dressing room.

At that moment, news that was being relayed one after another on TV reached her ears.

【… Accordingly, the Hunter Association issued an emergency call to class A or higher hunters and announced that it would recruit volunteers from class B hunters to form an additional support group.】

She immediately left the gym, caught an empty taxi passing by, and got into it.

“Please go to the Korean university quickly.”

Before long, a taxi was running.

As she looked at the buildings passing by quickly, she bit her fingernails in nervousness.

As soon as she arrived, she got out of the car and ran to the professor she was always close to.

“Professor, if you know anything about the situation, please tell me.”

she asked urgently.

Although she had changed jobs, she was still hoping that a professor working in the same industry might know something, but the answer she received was far beyond her expectations.

“I’m sorry, Student Yujeong. “I have no way of knowing the details of the current situation.”

“… is that so.”

“I asked an acquaintance who is an active hunter, but he said he couldn’t know the details of the situation because it hadn’t arrived yet.”

“That means… “Are you saying it’s difficult for anyone to get information right away?”

“If you don’t have a close relationship with the association, most people will, unfortunately.”

Close relationship.

At that word, a person came to mind.

No, even in this tense time, I kept thinking about it, but its presence became even stronger.

“… Thank you professor. “I’ll just go.”

After leaving the professor’s office, she immediately took out her smartphone and made a call.

The recipient is Kim Do-jin.

Of all the people she knows, the one with the closest ties to the Hunter Association.

I’m still angry at him.

Didn’t he say some ridiculous things about himself and other things, such as saying that he was attracted to not only himself but also other women?

Still, I can’t help it.

If only he could dispel the anxiety that was bursting out of his and his mother’s hearts just a little.

-Because the customer was on the phone… .

But I can’t contact him.

Who on earth are you talking to so much that the call doesn’t get disconnected?

“Fuck… .”

I try to shake off my pounding heart and calmly organize my thoughts.

His class schedule was drawn in my head.

Today, if the time is now… , There is about an hour left until the next lecture.

then… .

‘East.’

Isn’t this a club room prepared for times like this?

Shin Yu-jeong runs straight to the club building with her exhausted body.

Eventually, a familiar voice is heard beyond the door of the club room we arrived at.

I don’t know what it’s about, but it looks like they’ve been on the phone for a while.

As I carefully opened the door and entered, I soon began to hear his words clearly.

“I’m going to Haenam right now. No, you don’t have to come pick me up.”

Her movements as she opened the door and entered stopped.

‘To Haenam… ‘You’re going?’

I don’t know what this means.

Why is it so easy to go to a place that is in the midst of trouble due to the appearance of the Kraken?

‘ah… .’

Suddenly, the news I heard at the gym flashed by.

In addition to the statement that he would only accept volunteers from B-level hunters and form an additional support group, Kim Do-jin is an active B-level hunter.

I know he deserves to go.

However, the action itself was not understood.

‘What on earth are you doing in that dangerous place?’

When she stopped in front of the door and was struggling.

“Shin Yoo-jeong… ?”

“ah… .”

Kim Do-jin and Shin Yu-jeong opened the door to leave the club room and faced each other with awkward expressions.

He asked her with a smile on his face.

“Did you come to rest? I’m going out now, so take it easy… .”

“hey.”

Shin Yu-jeong cut him off.

And asked.

“Haenam, why are you going?”

“… Why? “Of course.”

“Is it because of my dad?”

“… … .”

Kim Do-jin closed his mouth.